I'm sure Ron will love this article... As much as I'd want Tesla to succeed and sell million EV's per year I fully agree with the article and they are totally screwed up as far as car manufacturing goes. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4172190-tesla-betting-toyota-bad-idea
according to this https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/it looks like they will need to double production in about six weeks to meet their next proposed target of 5000 units by the end of June - I wonder what the next revision will be as the odds of meeting this one are pretty slim?
https://jalopnik.com/consumer-reports-says-it-found-big-flaws-with-the-tesla-1826198783
to be expectedremember: Tesla is a high-tech company, like Intel or ASUS. NOT a car company like GM or Toyota.Beta testing with your consumers, and releasing Alpha products to be improved "in the wild" is standard, even expected, practice.
Beta testing with the brakes now.
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on May 22, 2018, 02:58:41 pmto be expectedremember: Tesla is a high-tech company, like Intel or ASUS. NOT a car company like GM or Toyota.Beta testing with your consumers, and releasing Alpha products to be improved "in the wild" is standard, even expected, practice.How's the refund? Any word?
Quote from: rrocket on May 22, 2018, 02:59:08 pmQuote from: ChaosphereIX on May 22, 2018, 02:58:41 pmto be expectedremember: Tesla is a high-tech company, like Intel or ASUS. NOT a car company like GM or Toyota.Beta testing with your consumers, and releasing Alpha products to be improved "in the wild" is standard, even expected, practice.How's the refund? Any word?nope! Will send a follow-up email at the end of the week, and if no news after that will take it from there.
Remember the crap Toyota used to be given for unintended acceleration? Now we have cars on autopilot crashing into stationary cars and trucks on the side of the road among other scary things they do... and it's business as usual
Quote from: EV Dan on May 22, 2018, 02:59:58 pmRemember the crap Toyota used to be given for unintended acceleration? Now we have cars on autopilot crashing into stationary cars and trucks on the side of the road among other scary things they do... and it's business as usual And the unintended acceleration thing was operator error - no car can overpower it's brakes - people looking to blame someone else for their driving error. The autopilot car crashes are also operator error, but the car is actually now part of the problem, and you're right, no one seems to really think this is an issue. WTF?
How in the heck can Autopilot not see a big, red, parked fire truck?
elon has played america. he's played the system, he's just done such a great job of understanding and playing how badly america wants a new champion. he recognized that the product had to outperform regular petrol cars but it's just too bad he is so willing to cut corners. it just feels like he bought into his own BS.